'Freedom Riders' documentary will be shown at Loyola University

"Freedom Riders," a documentary about people who risked beatings and imprisonment in the early 1960s in the effort to desegregate public transportation in the deep South, will be screened tonight at Loyola University's Roussel Hall.

View full sizePaul Schutzer, Times Life Pictures/Getty ImagesFreedom Riders Julia Aaron, left, and David Dennis sit on board a bus as they and 25 others on the bus are escorted by two armed Mississippi National Guardsmen on their way from Montgomery, Ala., to Jackson, Miss.

The 7 p.m. free screening is sponsored by the Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice and will be followed by a question-and-answer period and a reception.

The documentary, directed by Stanley Nelson, will be on WYES-TV May 16 at 8 p.m. and May 17 at 10 p.m.